It saddens me to see how supporters of the 2 opposite US parties fight each other endlessly on this forum, even in their post signatures.

Can't we all just get a long and silence our computers, conservatives and liberals alike.

Imho you should consider if this really is the place for politics discussions. I mean, this is THE site for silent computers and heated politics debates, sometimes I don't even want to view the site because of that, but keep coming back for the computers part.

As long as it stays in Off topic, what's the problem? From what i noticed from my brief stay here so far is that while people may be bickering in debates sometime, they do not show any of that inside the normal help and discussion of silent computing related topics.

Right but do you? Do you realize that a political signature will inject its owner's political view in ANY forum they post in?

Any signature made makes a statement about the person making it, at times it might even trigger a reaction amongst some whereas amongst others it might not.

LAThierry wrote:

While I'm at it, I also would like to complain about intrusive, large and colorful signatures. Sometimes it's pretty ridiculous that a one line reply is followed by a 4 or 5-line colored signature.

Itâ€™s called individual expression, regarding the amount of lines I suppose that they need to fill the quota needed in order to achieve the perfect harmony between amount of lines and colours in their artistic presentation. (some humour)

qviri wrote:

Free speech means the government can't stop you from saying some things but last I checked SPCR wasn't the government.

I have to agree with the OP, not on every point, but in general. I tend to steer clear of the off-topic threads, but this means I have to filter them out when scanning the latest posts list. Although not a major inconvenience, it is one of the few things I would change about the site if I could. Don't get me wrong, SPCR is one of my favorite websites, especially the forums, but as "lm" says, this is the site feedback part of the forum. The vast majority of threads in the Off-topic section are posted by the same few people wishing to stir others up or start a flame war, neither of which things interest me in the slightest.
Signatures bother me less, obviously the ones with large images do, but they seem to be very rare here. Personally I think a sig should contain your system specs, as this can give a reader who is unfamiliar with the author an idea of their silencentricity (yes I just made that word up).
Anyway, Mike and Co. do an awesome job, so I'm not going to knock them and will keep logging on until the day they put tubgirl on the front page.

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